libvirt users - Jun 2010 - VirtualBox driver : creating storage for a new machine

Hi,

Another thing I'm strugglin with:

When creating a new domain from scratch using the proposed XML format in
the documentation, everything works fine - basically. A problem that I'd
like to solve now is that I would expect to be able to create new
volumes within libvirt.

I started with a basic XML file in order to define a pool, but virsh
told me that creating pools is not supported by the VirtualBox hypervisor.
>From the code and different hints I learned that there is only one pool
with a dummy UUID, named "default-pool".

Next I tried to create a new volume from a XML file, but the only thing
I'm getting are segmentation faults.

Has anybody used this approach successfully ?

Otherwise I assume that I have to create the VDI files manually using
VirtualBox GUI/VBoxManage or vboxshell.py.

Thanks in advance,

Regards,
Christian

On 06/29/2010 01:14 AM, Christian Patsch wrote:
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> Next I tried to create a new volume from a XML file, but the only thing
> I'm getting are segmentation faults.
Hi Christian,

Are you using the latest git head?  Asking the question because it's 
broken at the moment.  Some commits on friday killed it. :/

If that's the problem you're having, you can roll back to this commit 
and the segfaults shouldn't happen:

   8914453 phyp: reduce scope of driver functions

If you're not using the latest git head, then just ignore this email. :)

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

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